The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) is a world-class supercomputer facility.

The CCNI operates heterogeneous supercomputing systems consisting of massively parallel supercomputers and clusters.
There is a robust software environment for the development of new applications and a production environment of design tools.
The facility is connected to the rest of the world through a fiber network infrastructure.

Facility

The main facility for the CCNI is located in the Rensselaer Technology Park
in North Greenbush, N.Y. This location is a short drive to the Rensselaer campus in Troy, N.Y., as well as the state capitol in Albany, N.Y. and
train and air transportation.

The facility includes 4,300 square feet of expandable machine room space with power, cooling, and backup to support this unique capability.
This facility also has spaces that are used on a rotational basis for partner activities.

The heterogeneous supercomputing systems includes massively parallel Blue Gene supercomputers, IBM Power systems,
and clusters built using AMD Opteron processors. These systems provide more than 100 peak TeraFLOPS of computing power.
Hundreds of terabytes of storage complement this computing power.

16 IBM Blue Gene/L Racks with 16,384 compute nodes (for 32,768 compute cores) with 12TB memory
interconnected with high speed networks (hypertoroidal, collective, and global barrier/interrupt)
providing 75 Teraflops. In June 2007, the Blue Gene debuted at #7 on the
Top 500 Supercomputer List
and is currently #34 on the list.

High Performance Storage System with 832 TB of raw disk built on IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)

Network

The CCNI connects to the Rensselaer Troy campus and the NYSERNet optical research infrastructure, enabling
gigabit/second (or “GiGE”) connections to the Internet and Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR), and most of the research networks in the world through the peering point at 32 Avenue of the Americas. Connections at 10 GiGE via dedicated waves also are possible.